Ministry for Our Homeless Neighbors
by Larry Mojumdar
How have you seen God at work in your ministry over the year?
Indeed, we have witnessed God at work as we carried out our mission of serving our homeless neighbors through various outreach events and ministries.
Could you list the activities and the engagement of your ministry this past year?
MOHN stands for Mission for our Homeless Neighbors.
We are tremendously blessed to have our internal MOHN infrastructure, which many hands have nurtured in the past.
Annual MOHN activities start out on January 1 at 10:00 a.m., as traditional Japanese New Year’s Breakfast (OSECHI) is packed artistically in boxes prepared by the MOHN CORE TEAM to be delivered to Yoyogi Park.
Every day, a team led by Matt Ushida makes packs of rice balls to be delivered early next morning to the Shibuya 109 area to support our homeless neighbors, who had been sleeping in the basement.
The monthly fellowship luncheon is well-managed by MOHN CORE MEMBERS (Mark Alder, Nancy Malik, Jason Chen, Go Komatsu, Ghim Hong-il, Matt Ushida, & Larry Mojumdar) on the third Saturday of every month. In the summer, we also hand out insect-repellant sprays and lunch boxes. In the winter, MOHN hands out warm heat-tech underwear and lunch boxes.
Throughout the year, 5-10 volunteers pack the lunch boxes with the ingredients prepared by Mr. Kudo (a homeless brother) in the church kitchen. 80-120 lunch boxes are handed out for the monthly event from 14:00 p.m. at Yoyogi Park.
MOHN has allowed many contributors to support and dedicate more of themselves to the Lord’s service. Many young contributors learned to take on more significant responsibilities, and as we gave more of ourselves, we experienced that the Lord called us to more considerable challenges and responsibilities.